Greetings from Symming, musical, linguistic artchids.

Helmichines.

Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.

This is Lorenzo, and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.

And I would like to begin today's program by sending a big well done to the people of Ireland

who voted in favor of same-sex marriage last week.

As you no doubt already know, Ireland is the first nation on earth to submit this question

directly to its citizens. A tactic that I am told is called democracy. Now, here in the

states, however, democracy is frowned upon, and so this nation has submitted that question to

nine really old people who are sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court.

And needy, I mention the fact that six of those nine are Roman Catholics.

Yet there may even be hope here in the States,

considering the fact that prominent members of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

have called for their church to take a reality check.

So it is with great pride that I salute the citizens of Ireland for shedding off their infestation of priests long enough to cast out that Christian homophobia.

And if you've been with us here in the salon for a while, you also know that I hold dual citizenship with the U.S. and Ireland.

That's right, my passport has that wonderful little harp on it.

And as for welcoming gay rights, my family actually has a stake in that as well.

In June of 1993, I took my two youngest children to Ireland for a holiday,

and we postponed the beginning of our touring for one day,

while my youngest son marched in that year's gay pride parade in Dublin.

At the time, we never realized that it would take over 20 more years before the laws caught up with the minds of its citizens,

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